Example sentences of "[art] [noun prp] have done [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a dynasty the Angevins had done well , but noticeably less well then either of their main rivals , the Normans ( who had conquered England ) and the Poitevins ( who had acquired Gascony ) . |
| 2 | They also indicated that they would surrender their arms to ECOMOG as soon as the NPFL had done so . |
| 3 | Giving them a taste of the Battle of Britain , hitting their churches and cathedrals , just as the Jerries had done here . |
| 4 | The USA exploded its first thermonuclear device in 1952 , and within a year the USSR had done likewise . |
| 5 | The Serbs have done most of the killing , and the rejection of the Vance-Owen plan by the self-proclaimed Serb parliament in Bosnia , to be followed by a referendum on May 15th , confirms the judgment that they are the main aggressors . |
| 6 | The most dramatic effect of the squeeze , says Sir Eric , is seen in academic salaries , He produces figures which show that while dons ' salaries have retained their real value over the last 15 years or so — that is to say , they have kept pace with the Retail Price index — almost every other non-manual worker in the UK has done significantly better . |
| 7 | After all , the US has done well by Smurfit in the past . |
| 8 | Nesta Webster , however , who was a member of the grand council for three months in 1926 and 1927 , thought that the BF had done more for British patriotism than all the other middle-class organizations put together , and soon after leaving established a Patriots Enquiry Centre , a kind of Die-hard library where the ultra-right could study the socialist menace . |
| 9 | All very well , but could n't people like the Kaufmanns have done rather more to undermine the evil regime that had their country in its grip ? |